Quote Originally Posted by Catrin View Post
Out of curiosity, how do you compare the ride between steel and TI frames? I love how my LHT rides, though she is far from light.
I far prefer my titanium bike to my surly - but my ti is lighter and fits better and I run smaller tires on it. So with that caveat, my surly feels like a very comfortable tank when I'm on it - it does have fatter tires than anything I run on the road bikes and is a flat bar. I have had some pretty big impacts on it (dropping down into a parallel grate) that did hurt my wrists, so apparently steel can't cushion everything The ti bike climbs much better, and is just a lively ride - I can feel the road, but it's not a jarring or annoying feel - even with chip seal. I swear chip seal sucks the life out of me though.

I've got a carbon road bike as well, the ti is a little lighter - and they are both fairly similar geometry wise, I do prefer the compact double on the ti... But the carbon doesn't quite feel as lively,I don't feel the road really - which was the point when I decided to switch from aluminum, my wrists couldn't take it. The lack of the road feel from carbon does mean that I probably don't notice the road quite as much - so when I do hit a pothole or something, I'm a bit less prepared for it than I am on a different bike.